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ArticleJournal of anatomy2022

Morphology and chemical characteristics of taste buds associated with P2X3-immunoreactive afferent nerve endings in the rat incisive papilla.

Motoi Ito, Takuya Yokoyama, Masato Hirakawa, Yoshio Yamamoto, Wakana Sakanoue, Kenichi Sato, Tomoyuki Saino

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Article in Journal of anatomy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Motoi ItoDivision of Dental Anesthesiology, Department of Reconstructive Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Iwate Medical University, Yahaba, Japan.
Takuya YokoyamaDepartment of Anatomy (Cell Biology), Iwate Medical University, Yahaba, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3384-0623
Masato HirakawaDepartment of Anatomy (Cell Biology), Iwate Medical University, Yahaba, Japan.
Yoshio YamamotoLaboratory of Veterinary Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6352-6013
Wakana SakanoueDivision of Dental Anesthesiology, Department of Reconstructive Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Iwate Medical University, Yahaba, Japan.
Kenichi SatoDivision of Dental Anesthesiology, Department of Reconstructive Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Iwate Medical University, Yahaba, Japan.
Tomoyuki SainoDepartment of Anatomy (Cell Biology), Iwate Medical University, Yahaba, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6360-9516
Iwate Medical University · JPIwate University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study investigated the cellular components and afferent innervations of taste buds in the rat incisive papilla by immunohistochemistry using confocal scanning laser microscopy. Taste buds containing guanine nucleotide-binding protein G(t), subunit α3 (GNAT3)-imunoreactive cells were densely distributed in the lateral wall of incisive papilla forming the opening of nasoincisor ducts. GNAT3-immunoreactive cells in the taste buds were slender in shape and the tips of apical processes gathered at one point at the surface of the epithelium. The number of taste buds was 56.8 ± 4.5 in the incisive papilla. The incisive taste buds also contained ectonucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 2-immunoreactive cells and synaptotagmin-1-immunoreactive cells in addition to GNAT3-immunoreactive cells. Furthermore, GNAT3-immunoreactive cells were immunoreactive to taste transduction molecules such as phospholipase C, β2-subunit, and inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor, type 3. P2X3-immunoreactive subepithelial nerve fibers intruded into the taste buds and terminated with hederiform or calix-like nerve endings attached to GNAT3-immunoreactive cells and synaptosomal-associated protein, 25 kDa-immunoreactive cells. Some P2X3-immunoreactive endings were also weakly immunoreactive for P2X2. Furthermore, a retrograde tracing method using fast blue dye indicated that most of the P2X3-immunoreactive nerve endings originated from the geniculate ganglia (GG) of the facial nerve. These results suggest that incisive taste buds are morphologically and cellularly homologous to lingual taste buds and are innervated by P2X3-immunoreactive nerve endings derived from the GG. The incisive papilla may be the palatal taste papilla that transmits chemosensory information in the oral cavity to the GG via P2X3-immunoreactive afferent nerve endings.

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Taste BudsAnimalsMicroscopy, ConfocalNerve EndingsPalateRatsSensory Receptor Cellsgeniculate gangliaGNAT3incisive papillaP2X purinoceptortaste buds

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PMID34719779
PMCPMC8930809
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